“It was not the armies in the field, the ships on the sea. nor the squadrons in the air that won the war,” declared Mr. W. Perry, one of the representatives of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, at the patriotic societies’ conference al Wellington; “It was the spirit of the people,” The returned soldiers, lie said, had not forgotten the olVort-H made by the people mi their liehalf, and were thankful that their in terests had been watched. Many men returned from the war with the idea that they could consume indiscriminately (lie funds that had been accumulated for service men. Fortunately, the R.S.A,-and the patriotic societies thought otherwise, with the result that there was a) ill a- great deal of money available for the men.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 15
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